Böcker av Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent. His novel Cat's Cradle follows the life of an English girl married off to an Italian prince.

Based on the books "With the Russians in Manchuria" (impressions of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905); "A Year in Russia" (the record of a momentous year in the political history of Russia, 1905-1906); and, "Russian Essays and Studies" (later impressions), this title the author's views as an observer in the Russia.

In a recent survey of Commonplace Books, John Julius Norwich declared 'the greatest of them all for my money is that of godfather Maurice Baring. One of the pleasures of dipping in to commonplace books is serendipity and in Baring's the quotient could hardly be higher.

Russian literature begins with the nineteenth century, that is to say with the reign of Alexander I. It was then that the literary fruits on which Russia has since fed were born. The seeds were sown, of course, centuries earlier. This work presents an outline of the Russian literature.

Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War, at the age of forty, he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard, Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France, and, later on, creator of the Royal Air Force.